- A new “choose your own” Xbox Game Pass plan is reportedly in the works
- Windows Central claims that the new formula will allow users to customize the content of their membership
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has also teased a new Discord partnership
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new Xbox Game Pass plan that will allow users to choose the content of their membership.
That’s according to Windows Central’s Jez Corden, who claims sources told him the long-term goal for the company is to make the subscription service “more flexible.”
This would line up with what Xbox CEO Asha Sharma recently said in a leaked memo to staff, where she admitted the service was “too expensive” for gamers.
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“In the short term, Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation,” reads the announcement, obtained by The Verge. “Long term, we will develop Game Pass into a more flexible system that will take time to test and learn about.”
Corden claims that a “choose your own plan” formula for Game Pass is in the cards, where users would be able to decide which bundles of content they want in their plan.
The idea would essentially mean that players could remove Cloud Gaming from their plan to lower the price and even remove content such as Fortnite crew subscription service and add Xbox games on day one instead.
Windows Central also points out Microsoft’s leaked “Duet” and “Triton” codenames for Xbox Game Pass, suggesting new bundles are in the works.
Gamers have reacted to the report, with some sharing their enthusiasm for the potential change, while others suspect that Microsoft is “probably just figuring out a way to charge you a little less money for significantly less content.”
“Please. I don’t need half the stuff I pay for,” said one user in a Reddit thread.
Another wrote: “Awesome! As someone who doesn’t use these bonuses, I will benefit from these changes.”
The report also comes as the Xbox CEO teased a new Microsoft and Discord partnership, writing on X/Twitter that they are “teaming up again” as part of an effort to “make Game Pass more flexible for our players.”
Game Pass Ultimate currently has a month of Discord Nitro, so Xbox may develop the offer.
The news comes after Xbox announced a price cut on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, as well as the removal of Call of Duty titles as day-1 offers.
Now Game Pass Ultimate will cost $22.99 instead of $29.99 per game. month, while PC Game Pass will go from $16.49 to $13.99 per month.
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